Revising?

[Maes Seren]

Any easy ways to remember stuff?

Looks like ive got to remember a heck of alot of stuff for nutrition (and the rest of my modules, but currently on nut) which includes shapes of molecules, eg vit a, how on earth am i going to remember them grrrrrr???

[kateflashy]

i used to write notes then put it under my pillow i always knew it in the morning off by heart

or make up rhyme or story like i did for parts of the spine

all over the world credit cards provide a great service to thora hurd lumber jacks and cottage people

or atlas, axis, cervical, thorasic, lumber, coxygiel

i might know the proper words of heart but always rember the story and then just use associated words

[Blonde Donkey]

i do a spider diagram with all the stuff i need to know around the outside or drawing's, although if your drawing's anything like ine then you won't be able to guess what it is.
or make a tape of you saying all the stuff and play it in your sleep

[Maes Seren]

Kateflashy, how did that work? Just putting the notes under your pillow?

Gonna try the spider diagrams, i also cant draw though so will be interesting!!!

[aimee]

I always write them all out over and over again...sounds like the most boring way but its how I remember things! also gets you remembering the spellings (extra brownie points!)

[Maes Seren]

Thats how i used to do it, but when i have a big folder *full* of stuff to revise, its going to waste a tonne of ink, and paper!

[kateflashy]

May 5, 2008 12:24:52 GMT Maes Seren said:

Kateflashy, how did that work? Just putting the notes under your pillow?

dunno but it always did p'haps i sleep read them or somthing

[Maes Seren]

Did you have to write the notes out, or could i just shove my folder under there for a week? ;D ;D (any excuse to get out of revision!!!)

[kateflashy]

just did a kinda short hand though worked for dressage tests too i just put the whole sheet there

[Maes Seren]

This time in 2 weeks time my first 4 hours will be over... i always leave things to the last minute grrrr

Will stick dressage tests under my pillow ... if i get hold of some jods to wear (left mine at home grrrrr)

[shearer]

I'm trying to revise for GCSE's atm and i can never remember all of it! I've done loas of spider charts/mind maps and stuck them in places i'm likely to see them, mirrors, doors etc. I've just put like the key bits of information/keywords on and highlighted them so it stands out and isn't confusing to read!

[Maes Seren]

I also used to do odd words from phrases on to post it notes, and stick them everywhere, but id fill my room now!!!

[maximum]

I always taped myself reading out the stuff I needed to know and played it over and over again and it seeps in slowly!

also wrote it out a heap of times I have a dreadful memory so its always hard but I di find with horse stuff its easier to relate it to something so for the tendons I drew on the horses legs with highlighter to mark them!!

also like kateflasy make up a sentence which uses the same initials as the things you are trying to remember.

[Maes Seren]

I want a dictaphone!!!

It would be such a fab idea, wonder if tesco would do a cheap one... or comets opposite... Tomorrow ill nip out, i need to go get some cream joddies anyway

[rebanna]

i use post it note's my house mate is on the same course so r house is covered lol poor dog keep's getting them stuck on her

[Maes Seren]

Haha, poor dog!!! ;D

[martine]

As a language student, I had to learn HEAPS of vocabulary. Fascinating stuff like all the different parts of an engine (haven't got a clue what they are in either French or English, anyway), the sails and bits and pieces on a sailing boat (hate the water), all the insects, the differences between glimmer, glitter, shimmer and so on...
So here are a few things I tried:
*sing the thgs you have to learn, the tune will help memorise (that's what the bards used to do and they had to commit to memory poems that were several hundreds of lines long!)
*learn different thgs in different environments, and try and visualise the relevant place when you have to remember the thgs.
*create links between thgs you already know and the new stuff. If there isn't any actual link, make it up. For ex, I distinctly remember the day I learnt the word "colander": I saw one and asked what it was called while staying in an English family as a teenager, and there was also a Saudi boy staying, and I remembered because he was exotic, and exotic food uses a lot of coriander! Very far-fetched, I aggree, but you get the idea!